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Pardons by American presidents: - Bill Clinton: 459 - George W. Bush: 200 - Barack Obama: 1,927 - Donald Trump (first term): 237 - Joe Biden: 4,245
by DeusExMachina 1y ago
Pardons by American presidents:
- Bill Clinton: 459
- George W. Bush: 200
- Barack Obama: 1,927
- Donald Trump (first term): 237
- Joe Biden: 4,245
- Donald Trump (second term): 1,600
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_president_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_gra...
- drooopy 1y agoOff the top of my head regarding Biden's numbers: https://apnews.com/article/biden-commutes-2500-nonviolent-drug-offenders-83174cd0602a0bf5d491aa60184f3568 https://apnews.com/article/biden-commutes-2500-nonviolent-dr... "he is seeking to undo “disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.”
- otterley 1y agoNumbers matter less than reasons. We should be asking why, not how many.
- DeusExMachina 1y agoWould you be saying the same if the numbers were different?
- Spivak 1y agoYes? Our boy in the big top hat pardoned the entire Confederacy—he's Pardons—Georg. Nobody would be dumb enough to use number of pardons to argue Lincoln was corrupt or abusing power. 4000 of Biden's pardons were mass pardons. 1500 of Trump's second term pardons are also a mass pardon of Jan 6, a decision I completely agree with. I would have pardoned them too because people were losing their minds over it to the point of not being able to be productive anymore. Honestly I feel the same way about the stupid laptop thing, you all clearly can't be normal about it so I'm ending it.
- otterley 1y agoYes. Smart people are educated to look at statistics with a critical eye, and we should be educating everyone we can do to the same.